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    Nicholas Hoult

    Age 22 Male
    Actor, Model
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    Nicholas Caradoc Hoult is an English actor, best known for playing Marcus Brewer in the 2002 film About a Boy, Tony Stonem in the E4, BAFTA-winning television series Skins, and Hank Mccoy/Beast in the X-Men prequel, X-Men: First Class.read more

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    Nicholas Brendon

    Age 41 Male
    Actor
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    Nicholas Brendon, is an actor best known for his character Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003).

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    Nicholas Parsons

    Age 88 Male
    Actor, Radio and Tv Presenter
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    Nicholas Parsons OBE is a British actor and radio and television presenter.

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    Nicholas van Hoogstraten

    Age 67 Male
    Businessman, Entrepreneur, Rival
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    Nicholas van Hoogstraten is a British businessman and real estate magnate. van Hoogstraten is known for his business empire as well as his controversial life story: In 1968, he was convicted, and sent to prison, for paying a gang to attack a business associate. In 2002, he was sentenced to 10 years for the manslaughter of a business rival.read more

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    Nicholas D. Kristof

    Age 52 Male
    Journalist, Author, Columnist
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    Nicholas Donabet Kristof is an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001 and The Washington Post says that he "rewrote opinion journalism" with his emphasis on human rights abuses and social injustices, such as human trafficking and the Darfur conflict.read more

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    Nicholas Lea

    Age 49 Male
    Actor
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    Nicholas Lea is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Alex Krycek on The X-Files and on Kyle XY playing Tom Foss.

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    Nicholas II of Russia

    1868 - 1918 Male
    Tsar of Russia

    Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse.read more

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    Nicholas Tse

    Age 31 Male
    Singer, Musician, Songwriter
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    Nicholas Tse is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor and musician, and son of actor Patrick Tse. He is a member of the Emperor Entertainment Group. Throughout his career, he has been a singer, an actor, a director, a producer, and a composer. He originally learned martial arts for the screen and television, which he continues to practice. He has won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor.read more

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    Nicholas Roerich

    1874 - 1947 Male
    Painter, Philosopher, Archeologist

    Nicholas Roerich, also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, was a Russian mystic, painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure. A prolific artist, he created thousands of paintings and about 30 literary works.read more

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    Nicholas M. Nolan

    1835 - 1883 Male
    Civil War

    Nicholas Merritt Nolan was a United States Army major. He began his military career on December 9, 1852 as an artilleryman then served in the 2nd Dragoons. He started as a private and rose through the ranks becoming a First Sergeant. He was commissioned an officer in late 1862 in the Regular Army while serving with the 6th U.S. Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War. He participated in sixteen campaigns with the 6th and most of its battles.read more

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    Nicholas Soames

    Age 64 Male
    Member of Parliament, President, Private
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    Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames MP, known as Nicholas Soames, is a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Mid Sussex. He is also Chairman of the private security contractor Aegis. Soames is a former Defence minister having served in the government of Sir John Major, 1994–97. His main political interests are defence, international relations, rural affairs and industry.read more

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    Nicholas Biwott

    Age 71 Male
    Politician, Businessman, Civil Servant

    Kipyator Nicholas Kiprono arap Biwott is a Kenyan businessman, politician and philanthropist. Biwott has served as a civil servant, Member of Parliament and government minister, during which time he has held eight senior ministerial positions, worked alongside Kenya’s first three presidents – Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki – and with many significant public figures in post independence Kenya, including Bruce McKenzie and Tom Mboya.read more

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    Nicholas Shehadie

    Age 85 Male
    Australian Rugby Union Player

    Sir Nicholas Michael Shehadie, AC, OBE KStJ is the former Lord Mayor of Sydney (1973–1975) and a former national representative rugby union captain, who made thirty career Test appearances (1947–1958). He is an inductee into both the Australian Rugby Union Hall of Fame and the IRB Hall of Fame.read more

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    Nicholas Mayall

    1906 - 1993 Male
    Astronomer

    Nicholas Ulrich Mayall was an American observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Mayall worked at the Lick Observatory, where he remained from 1934–1960, except for a brief period at MIT's Radiation Laboratory during World War II.read more

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    Nicholas Budgen

    1937 - 1998 Male
    Politician, Dean, Priest

    Nicholas William Budgen, often called Nick Budgen, was a British Conservative Party politician. Named after St. Nicholas Church in Newport, Shropshire of which his grandfather (who was later Dean of Lichfield Cathedral) was priest, Budgen was baptised at Lichfield Cathedral by the grandfather of fellow Conservative politician Enoch Powell.read more

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    Nicholas Purcell of Loughmoe

    Male
    Baron, Butler, Duke

    Not to be confused with Nick Purcell. Nicholas Purcell, 13th Baron of Loughmoe was the son of James Purcell of Loughmoe and the maternal nephew of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde. A member of the King's Privy Council, Purcell was the right-hand man to Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan. In 1687 Nicholas Purcell raised a troop of horse to support King James II — they were called the "Yellow Horse," probably on account of the uniform of the men.read more

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    Nicholas Katzenbach

    Age 90 Male
    Politician, Lawyer, Attorney General

    Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach is an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.

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    Nicholas Courtney

    1929 - 2011 Male
    Actor

    William Nicholas Stone Courtney was an English television actor, most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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    Nicholas Zammit

    1815 - 1899 Male
    19th Century Maltese Philosopher

    Nicholas Zammit was a Maltese medical doctor, an architect, an artistic designer, and a major philosopher. His area of specialisation in philosophy was chiefly ethics. Throughout his philosophical career he did not adhere to just one intellectual position. Roughly two-thirds into his life, Zammit passed from a liberal way of thinking to a conservative one.read more

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    Nicholas RAS Furlong

    Age 25 Male
    Songwriter, Producer, Engineer

    Nicholas Michael Furlong is an American songwriter, record producer, vocal producer, and engineer. He has worked with many high-profile artists, including Jordin Sparks, Leona Lewis, Big Time Rush, Far East Movement, Colbie Caillat, Mario, JC Chasez, Leon Thomas, Guy Sebastian, Stan Walker, and Jessica Mauboy. Furlong has also worked with many notable producers such as Ryan Tedder, Brian Kennedy, Diplo, J.R. Rotem, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, DJ Frank E, Dada Life, and Ammo.read more

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    Nicholas Winterton

    Age 74 Male
    Politician

    Sir Nicholas Raymond Winterton is a retired British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Macclesfield from 1971 until he retired from the House of Commons at the 2010 general election. His wife, Ann Winterton, also served as a Member of Parliament, representing the neighbouring Congleton constituency.read more

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    Nicholas Fairbairn

    1933 - 1995 Male
    Politician, Member of Parliament, Solicitor General

    Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn, QC was a British politician. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Kinross and Western Perthshire, elected in 1974 and 1979, and Perth and Kinross, elected 1983, 1987, and 1992. He was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1979 to 1982. He was noted for his criticism of the European Union, his outspoken manner, and his colourful dress sense.read more

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    Nicholas Ridley

    4712 BC - 1555 Male
    Bishop of London; Anglican Saint

    Nicholas Ridley was an English Bishop of London. Ridley was burned at the stake, as one of the Oxford Martyrs, during the Marian Persecutions, for his teachings and his support of Lady Jane Grey. Ridley is remembered with a commemoration in the Calendar of saints in some parts of the Anglican Communion on 16 October.read more

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    Nicholas I of Russia

    1796 - 1855 Male
    Emperor of Russia

    Nicholas I, (6 July 1796 – 2 March 1855) was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the Russian monarchs. On the eve of his death, the Russian Empire reached its historical zenith spanning over 20 million square kilometers (7.7 million square miles). In his capacity as the emperor he was also the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Finland.read more

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    Nicholas Stone

    1647 Male
    Sculptor, Architect, Mason

    Nicholas Stone was an English sculptor and architect. In 1619 he was appointed master-mason to James I, and in 1626 to Charles I. During his career he was the mason responsible for not only the building of Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, Whitehall, but the execution of avant-garde funerary monuments for some of the most prominent of his era.read more